710.1 Except as provided in § 710.2 and § 710.3, no person shall engage in commercial collection and transportation of solid wastes by vehicle, in or through the District, without first having obtained a collector's license and a collection vehicle license for each vehicle so used.

710.2 Any non-profit religious, hospital, charitable, educational (where providing a student/teacher relationship), or scientific organization shall be exempt from the requirement of having a collector's license when engaged in the collection and transportation of solid waste generated exclusively by that organization, and shall be further exempt from the requirement contained in § 705.1.

710.3 Any collector who neither collects refuse (trash) nor operates a collection vehicle with a dumping mechanism shall be exempt from the requirement of having a collector's license issued by DCRA. This provision does not exempt such collectors from DPW registration requirements.

710.4 Any collection vehicle used in the collection of refuse (trash) shall be equipped with a dumping mechanism and shall have a valid collection vehicle license in accordance with § 710, § 711 and § 712.

710.5 Any solid waste collector who operates a vehicle used in the collection of refuse (trash) or operates a solid waste collection vehicle with a dumping mechanism shall have a valid solid waste collector license in accordance with § 710, § 711 and § 712.

SOURCE: Regulation No. 71-21 approved June 29, 1971, published at 18 DCR 16 (July 12, 1971); as published at 8 DCRR §8-3606(a); as amended by Regulation No. 72-15, approved July 28, 1972; as amended by § 2(d) of the Solid Waste Control Act of 1977, effective April 6, 1978 (D.C. Law 2-69; 24 DCR 6800 (February 17, 1978)); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 64 DCR 13076 (December 22, 2017).